40 October 2015 - Business View Caribbean
MTS employs over 200 people on the island. “We are
based in Kingston, and we have full-time offices in
Kingston and Montego Bay,” says Clarke. “We have
what’s called operational offices where we only attend
when a vessel is in port, and those would be in Port
Kaiser, Rocky Point, Ocho Rios, and Discovery Bay. We
also have opened up offices in Trinidad and Barbados.
In Trinidad, we have two operations that are set up
now - both based off of the functions that we do in
Jamaica. In Trinidad, we have a little over a hundred
employees. In Barbados we’re not that established, as
yet. We’ve invested with a partner, there, and we have
about ten people in Barbados. But we work cargo in
each country. So we not only operate in Jamaica, but
we now stretch across the Caribbean – and we hope to
keep building a Caribbean network.”
As if the MTS Group wasn’t busy enough, Clarke re-
veals that there are other business ventures he would
like to see the company embark upon, one of which
is ship repair. “That is something that we hope to
achieve before 2020 - to have a floating dock which
would be a barge able to lift vessels out of the water
to do repairs and maintenance on. Right now, small,
recreational vessels are dry-docked. We’re hoping to
do it with larger vessels that carry cargo.” In addition,
Clarke admits that he has always wanted to get into air
transport, but, as yet, has not been able to “break into
